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There are a lot of great reasons to start your own website. Whether you're looking to create your own blog, kick off a side hustle or build a portfolio, there's no better time than right now to build a website. It's an exciting process, too. Picking your own personal design to represent yourself is one of the many exhilarating parts of building your new website. However, there's a lot more to it than just clicking around and hitting save when you're happy.

First off, you need to have an idea for what your site should contain or be about, and you have to choose a company to house your website. The number of web hosting services can be confusing and the choice can be hard. So we looked over the data for 22 web hosting services to make things a little easier on you.

You can read more about our criteria for web hosting services, and you can check out important web hosting terms to know.

Note: Pricing for web hosting is a bit tricky to follow. Listed prices are generally introductory rates attached to contracts that usually last a year or more and renew at the regular, higher, rate at the end of the contract. Make sure to take the regular rate into account when trying to figure out a long-term hosting provider. 

Best web hosting services Sarah Tew/CNET

Pros:

• Extensive security features, including backups
• Unlimited traffic, so no need to scale up plans to handle additional traffic
• 99.99% uptime guarantee

Cons:

• Website builder costs extra
• Plan prices increase, sometimes by huge margins, over time

Our take

IONOS has the lowest starting price point of any other service on this list, but once the plan renews, the price increases drastically. IONOS also has customer support numbers for 14 countries, making it a good choice for international customers.

Hosting plans

Ionos offers shared, VPS, dedicated and managed and unmanaged WordPress hosting. The company also differentiates between hosting plans meant for smaller and larger organizations to help customers better understand what plan is best for them.

Security features

Ionos offers security features that go beyond what other web hosting services offer. All plans include SSL certificates, malware scans and DDoS protections. Some plans also help repair damage malware might cause on your website. Backups at least once every 24-hours are also standard with each plan, and each backup is held for 20 days. A full set of a customer's data is also stored in two separate data centers as a security measure, that way customers will always have access to their data, even if one data center is brought down by a cyberattack.

Uptime

Ionos has a 99.99% uptime guarantee, which is a higher guarantee than most other web hosting services. Battery-operated power supplies and backup generators help maintain power to Ionos data centers so your site and services stay online even if its data center loses power.

Customer support

Support is available any time, either by phone or chat. A directory also provides customer support numbers for customers in 14 different countries. Ionos also offers a personal consultant who will be your main point of contact if you need help with your site. A personal consultant and phone numbers for different support centers around the world gives Ionos customers more ways to get help compared to some other hosting providers.

Contact us here: https://zenhosting.com.au/vps-hosting/